SEC Baseball Tournament 2018: Bracket, Schedule, Format, Team Rosters, Standings

There's no question the Southeastern Conference has been the best conference in college baseball this season, with seven teams ranked inside the RPI top-25 rankings.

That should make for a thrilling conference tournament, which will kick off on May 22 at Hoover Met Stadium, Alabama.

The top 12 teams in the conference will battle it out in the tournament, which is a mix of single- and double-elimination play over the course of the six-day event. Below should be all the information you need to get prepared for an exciting week of college baseball.

Bracket

An official tournament bracket is available at ESPN.com.

Standings

There are still important games to be played before the regular season comes to a close, but for now, here's a look at how the current standings shake out.

Team	Conference	Overall	RPI
Florida	20-7	41-12	1
Georgia	16-11	35-16	3
South Carolina	15-12	30-21	44
Kentucky	13-14	33-18	17
Vanderbilt	12-14	26-24	41
Tennessee	11-15	28-24	63
Missouri	10-17	31-20	33

Team	Conference	Overall	RPI
Arkansas	17-10	36-15	5
Ole Miss	16-11	39-13	10
LSU	14-13	31-21	46
Auburn	13-14	35-17	7
Texas A&M	12-15	34-17	13
Mississippi State	12-15	28-24	35
Alabama	7-20	26-27	81

Arkansas and Georgia will be the big matchup of the upcoming weekend, as two of the nation's top teams will square off with their sights set on a top seed.

However, in terms of significance, no matchup is bigger than Missouri and Tennessee.

Since only the top 12 teams in the conference earn a spot in the SEC tournament, those two teams could wind up battling for the final spot, with Alabama already eliminated from the mix.

Schedule

With the seeding not yet decided, the best we can do for a schedule right now is give an idea of when each seed will be in action when the tournament begins and what time each of the games will be played.

Game	Date	Matchup	Time (ET)	Watch
1	May 22	No. 6 vs. No. 11	10:30 a.m.	SEC Network
2	May 22	No. 7 vs. No. 10	TBD	SEC Network
3	May 22	No. 8 vs. No. 9	5:30 p.m	SEC Network
4	May 22	No. 5 vs. No. 12	TBD	SEC Network
5	May 23	No. 3 vs. Game 1 Winner	10:30 a.m.	SEC Network
6	May 23	No. 2 vs. Game 2 Winner	TBD	SEC Network
7	May 23	No. 1 vs. Game 3 Winner	5:30 p.m.	SEC Network
8	May 23	No. 4 vs. Game 4 Winner	TBD	SEC Network
9	May 24	Game 5 Loser vs. Game 6 Loser	10:30 a.m.	SEC Network
10	May 24	Game 7 Loser vs. Game 8 Loser	TBD	SEC Network
11	May 24	Game 5 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner	5:30 p.m.	SEC Network
12	May 24	Game 7 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner	TBD	SEC Network
13	May 25	Gams 9 Winner vs. Game 11 Loser	4 p.m.	SEC Network
14	May 25	Game 10 Winner vs. Game 12 Loser	TBD	SEC Network
15	May 26	Game 13 Winner vs. Game 11 Winner	1 p.m.	SEC Network
16	May 26	Game 14 Winner vs. Game 12 Winner	TBD	SEC Network
17	May 27	Game 15 Winner vs. Game 16 Winner	3 p.m.	ESPN2

Rosters

Full rosters for each team can be found on SECSports.com's baseball page.

There are a number of players worth watching for MLB fans who might already be looking ahead to next month's MLB draft.

Here's a quick rundown of the SEC players who rank among the Top 100 on Baseball America's Top 500 draft prospects in this year's class:

1. RHP Casey Mize, Auburn
4. RHP Brady Singer, Florida
5. 3B Jonathan India, Florida
16. RHP Jackson Kowar, Florida
21. LHP Ryan Rolison, Ole Miss
30. RHP Sean Hjelle, Kentucky
36. RHP Blaine Knight, Arkansas
50. OF Tristan Pompey, Kentucky
60. LHP Konnor Pilkington, Mississippi State
67. OF Zach Watson, LSU
79. RHP Adam Hill, South Carolina
82. RHP Isaiah Campbell, Arkansas
86. RHP Zack Hess, LSU
98. RHP Mitchell Kilkenny, Texas A&M

Format

The tournament opens with a round of single-elimination games, narrowing the field from 12 to eight heading into Wednesday's action.

From there, it's a double-elimination tournament until four teams are left standing, at which point it's back to single-elimination for the semifinals and finals.

The ultimate goal here is a spot in the field of 64 teams for this year's College World Series, and there will no doubt be more than a few SEC schools vying for a place in Omaha.

In their latest bracket projection on May 9, Teddy Cahill and Michael Lananna of Baseball America had a whopping 11 SEC teams among the projected field.

Florida (1), Arkansas (5), Georgia (7), Ole Miss (8) and Auburn (9) were all seeded and hosting a regional, while Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt were also part of the field.

Florida is the team to beat—both in the SEC tournament and nationally—but there is no shortage of talent top-to-bottom in the nation's most-stacked conference.